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After seizing power in December, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group that now runs Syria pledged to reconstruct the country after 13 years of brutal civil war and abandon a highly ...
As Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), sent him back home to establish the Al-Nusra Front, a branch of Al Qaeda.
ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have ousted the regime of Bashar ...
The Syrian transitional government (Arabic: ٱلحُكُوَمَة ٱلانتِقَالِيَّة ٱلسُّورِيَّة, romanized: al-Ḥukūmah al-Intiqāliyyah as-Sūriyyah) is the incumbent transitional government of Syria.
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group now controls Syria's largest city, Aleppo. It comes as Syria's powerful allies, Iran and Russia, are distracted with other conflicts.
Bashar al-Assad [b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator [1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024.
The president of Syria (Arabic: رئيس سوريا, romanized: Raʾīs Sūriyā) is the head of state of Syria. The president is vested with sweeping powers that may be delegated, at his sole discretion, to his vice presidents .
The Defence Secretary has said that “proscription is not a matter for now” in relation to the UK’s ban on the group that has taken power in Syria.